On Thursday, April 17 I get a call from Alec at 2:30pm saying "I have an emergency cupcake order!" The head of HR at his company is having a birthday the following day. "Do you want to do it?" I had been sending off many cupcake "experiments" with Alec to work and finally it pays off. One of the HR women heard of my cupcakes but was always too late in getting a sample, but she heard others rave about them.
Of course I wanted to do it! But I only had one night to produce two dozen cupcakes of whatever I wanted.
I decided to do one dozen strawberry cupcakes, which everyone seems to like and one dozen chocolate cupcakes with a smooth, silky poured ganache - who doesn't like chocolate?.
I was able to fit in one hour of MEP (measuring) while Laura played in the kitchen cupboards. Then after Alec got home and we had dinner, I worked from 8:30pm-12:30am. And yet again, around 10:30pm, I get tired because it's my bedtime and I wonder "why am I doing this?" At that hour, the creative juices run to a trickle. In the end, I have to say the presentation had room for improvement. However, the cupcakes were good enough or better because by the afternoon I receive an email from Alec from saying that the cupcakes were a "BIG hit!"
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Congratulations on coming through in a pinch! A mark of someone who truly knows what she's doing. I think anyone, pro or not, has a moment where they feel burnt out and wish they could stop. But then once you see the completed product, it was all worth it. BTW, that's funny about Laura playing. I have this image of her being put inside a large cabinet with some bowls and spoons to play with.
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